Cushioned heel.



v J..IRV VIN. GUSHIONED HEEL.

APPLICATION IILEDJIOV. a, 1913.

1 ,1 09,757. Patented Sept. 8, 1914,

mTnosrArEs PATENT orrroE TrroMAs JAMES IRW N, or 'rannron, NEVT JERSEY;

To ZZ whom it may concern Be it lmown that I, Tirol-Iss1 IRWIN, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Trenton, in the county of Mercer and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cushioned Heels, of which the following is aspecification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. v

This invention relates .to cushions or resilient attachments for the heels of boots and shoes and it consists of improved means for securing a cushion of rubber or other sfiitable material to the heel of-a boot on s cc. I

The invention is fully disclosed-in the following specification of which the accoms panying drawing forms apart, in which the separate parts of my improvement, are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figurel' is a bottom plan view of aheel provided with rubber'cushion attached ac- .cording to my invention ;Fig.* 2 a transverse section on the .line 22 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1 Fig. 4 a bottom plan-view of a cushion attaching clamp which I employ, and Fig. 5 'a perspective view showing a modified form of said clam In the drawing fbrming part of thisspecification, I have shown at a a boot or shoe heel composed of separate layers a of leather, and a cushion b of rubber.

In attaching the cushion b to the leather part of the heel, as shown in Figs'l .to 4 inclusive, I provide a clamp device 0, shown intransverse section in Fig. 2, in longitudinal section in Fig. 3, and detached in Fig. 4.

The clamp device 0 is made of sheet metal and consists of -a raised longitudinal central portion 0 and depressed side flangesv c which are L-shaped in cross section, and in the form of construction shown in Figs. 2 to 4 inclusive, a supplemental longitudinal plate 0 is secured on the bottom of the part 0 and transversely corrugated, as clearly shown in said figures.- The cushion?) is also provided centrally and longitudinally ofthe top thereof with 'a transverse depression 6 adapted to receive the parts 0 and c of the clamp device 0, and the'bottom of which is transversely corrugated, as shown at 5 and the cushion b is also pi-gvided at the oppo- Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 8, 1914:, Application filed November 1913. Serial No. 299,646..

fsite sides of the transverse depression 6.

w.i tl;i -longitudinal slits or. slots 6 L-shaped i connecting the clamp device a with the cushion 6 and the cushion with the heel, the clamp device is slid backwardly over the top surface of the cushion into position, in which operation the side flanges c of the clamp device enter the slits or slots 5*. It requires some force to do'this, and when the clamp device is fully in position, as shown in Fig. 3, the corrugations b in the cushion Z) enter the corrugations c inthe part 0 of the clamp device, and this aids in securing the clamp device to the cushion, and the cushion is secured to the heel by passing screws 0? through holes d in the cushion, and through the clamp device and into the part or parts a of the heel.

My invention, however, is not limited to the above described method of connecting the clamp device with the cushion and the cushion withthe heel, and the clamp device mayfirst be secured to the heel and the cushion moved baclrwardly into. positi 1, in which operation the flanges c of the clamp device would enter the slits or slots 6* in the cushion, after which the screws (2 may be passed through the cushion and through the clamp device into the heel, or the clamp device may be secured in the cushion in any preferred manner, or in any preferred way, and the cushion afterward secured to the heel, and in any event, the cushion, after it has been worn, may be substituted by a new one in any of the ways above described.

In Fig. 5,'I have shown a modification in which the transverse corrugations are formed integrally with the part c of the clamp device, the distinctive featureof my inventionbeing in the form of the clamp device including the transverse corrugations, the side flanges c which are L-shaped" in cross section, the corresponding slits or slots 5 in the cushion I), together with the depression 6 in the top of said cushion adapted to receive the parts c and c of the. clamp device, and the screws (1! for securing the cushion to the heel.

Havi g ful y described my invention what.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Let tors Patent is The combination of a heel cushion and means for securing'the same t a boot or shoe heel, sa id cushion depression in the top-thereof, and said longitudinal depression being provided in the bottom thereof with transverse corrugations, said cushion being also provided with side slits communicating with said longitudinal depression and L-shaped in cross section, and a clamp device consisting of a central longitudinal part arranged to fit in said lonhaving a longitudinal gitudinal depression and provided with transverse corrugations and side flanges which are L-shaped in cross section and arranged to enter said slits.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name vin presence of the subscribing witnesses this 1st day of October 1913.

THOMAS JAMES IRNIN.

Witnesses JOSEPH L. SULLIVAN, VV ILLIAM J. HOGAN. 

